IEEE EPPC Working Group on ICT

Giambattista Gruosso is associate professor at Politecnico di Milano. He has 20 years of experience in research issues in electrical engineering and its links with ICT. For years he has been working on systems and components for Smart City, Smart Mobility and Smart Factory. He is director of the master Digital Skills for industry 4.0. He is secretary of the IEEE IES Committee on Transportation Electrification and is an active member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is member of committees for the promotion of ICT for intelligent life. He was secretary of the Italian section of IEEE (2016-2019), member of the local board of engineers (Milan). He is currently also scientific head of the technical area of MADE (competence center for Industry 4.0)

Constantinos Balictsis holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and was a “Marie-Curie” post-doctoral fellow of the European Commission. He also holds a M.Sc. degree in Applied Economics and Finance.

He has served as senior ICT policy adviser to the Greek Secretary General for Communications. Since 2000, he has been with the Greek National Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Postal Services (EETT) involved in activities pertinent to the transition of the telecommunications sector from monopoly to full-liberalization and the introduction and promotion of sustainable competition.

He served as EETT’s first Telecommunications Director and exercises senior advisory and management functions including Department Head and Project Manager responsible for EU co-financed projects. In this role, he organized and supervised the efforts to identify the ‘holistic’ framework which addresses EETT’s operational and organizational restructuring requirements and also the efforts to identify and deploy the spectrum management and monitoring infrastructure which satisfies national demands. He supervised EETT’s efforts to submit the respective project proposals, to secure funding (exceeding € 38,0 million), he monitors the progress of the projects and reports to the responsible domestic and EU funding agencies.

He has participated in European Commission committees, at meetings with representatives from the IMF, the OECD, institutional and financial investors, international Regulatory Authorities and cooperated with domestic ministries and representatives of various foreign national entities.

He is actively involved in research, mainly on ultrashort/ultra-wideband electromagnetic wave propagation in passive/active dispersive media, metamaterials and biological tissues as well as on optical access networks. He gives presentations, domestically and abroad, on regulatory and technology issues pertinent to the electronic communications sector.He is a member of the IEEE and Optica.

Ali Hossaini is Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Engineering at King’s College London, a Principal Investigator of the Health & Social Equity Collective, and co-director of National Gallery X, a founding partner of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub. He is the digital architect of the EIT Culture & Creativity KIC. With the UK's premiere security thinktank RUSI, he has contributed to AI policy by hosting conferences, editing its journal, and modelling potential threats from the perspective of biology.

His publications include a primer on neurophysiology for engineers, the Manual of Digital Museum Planning, and The Culture of Ecology, a manifesto for an engineering renaissance. Ericsson named him a 5G Trailblazer in 2020 and 2022.

He served in IEEE 7000 and IEEE 7001 working groups for ethical design of AI, and currently serves on the IEEE P2731 working group for brain-computer interface.

Dr Riccardo Vecellio Segate is a sociolegal scholar of technology, a public international lawyer, and an intellectual property consultant, currently a PostDoc in epistemic injustice at the University of Groningen and an Area Editor (algorithmic regulation) for the Data & Policy journal by Cambridge UP. He previously worked as a PostDoc on the largest UKRI/EPSRC interdisciplinary grant on smart collaborative robots (within the Smart Cobotics Centre), as a Research Associate in identity onboarding biometrics at The Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s national institute for data science and AI), as a BlueBook Trainee at the European Commission (DG CNECT), and as a Case-Law Reporter for Oxford UP. He holds a PgDip in European and Global Governance from the University of Bristol, an LLM in Public International Law from Utrecht University, and a PhD in International Law from the University of Macau, alongside three Diplomas (in European Affairs; Development Cooperation; Humanitarian Intervention) from ISPI Milan. He has been a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University (Beijing), The University of Hong Kong, the University of Milan, the University of Leeds, and UC Berkeley. His scholarship in policy and law has been extensively cited by courts, tribunals, parliaments, diplomatic missions, governments, and regulators worldwide, and has been awarded the Young Scholar Best Paper Prize at the Algorithms Conference held at Kyushu University in November 2019. He has also served on the User Segment within the IEEE SA P3349 – Space System Cybersecurity Working Group.

Silvia Liberata Ullo is an IEEE Senior Member, the IET Image Processing Editor in Chief, IEEE GRSS Europe Liaison, IADF TC Member, IEEE AESS Italy Chapter Chair, IEEE Joint ComSoc/VTS Italy Chapter Industry Liaison, and the ESA Phi-Lab Visiting Professor. In 1989, she graduated with laude in Electronic Engineering at the University of Naples (Italy) and in 1992, pursued an M.Sc. in Management at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) after having won an ITALTEL scholarship in 1990. Her research interests include signal processing, image processing, remote sensing, satellite data analysis, machine learning and quantum ML applied to remote sensing for Earth observation, radar systems, sensor networks, and smart grids.

Paolo is with the European Standardization and Industry Development (SID) department of Huawei where he holds a role in IP Product Management. Paolo is based in Milan, Italy, and has been working for 25+ years in telecommunications, with focus in networking technologies. Prior to joining Huawei, he worked for different companies, both technology vendors and network operators.

In his current job, he is involved in the technical work of standard bodies such as the IETF, BBF and ETSI. He is co-author or contributor of a number of drafts, documents and best current practices in the areas of IPv6, segment routing, SDN, and 5G backhauling. He is one of Huawei’s representatives in the World Broadband Association (WBBA). A portion of his job is dedicated to keeping the relationship with the stakeholders in TLC (customers, industry fora, telecom authorities). He usually gives speeches at industry events and conferences.